What is it we hope to find in them if indeed we ever get them? Any real ideas?<<

Not sure exactly but they lead Joe Cotchett to say (paraphrase) "These documents are dynamite. They will go all the way to the Supreme Court before they let those in court".

More anecdotal evidence: Sammy paid Mosaid Half a Billion dollars when these documents were about to come into open court. Mu settled with Tessera on the eve of trial when the Judge in East Texas said he was going to try the AT portion of that trial first. Apparently, the Judge knew that may spur some settlement action. Apparently, he was right, LOL.

I think the docs they are fighting so hard to keep from being admissable will make Linda Turner's comments look like she was planning for a Girl Scout bake sale. So far, they (the cartel) have settled twice when they could not keep them out.

I don't see the relationship between Cotcheet and these documents. This order to produce documents is in HJW's court. I beliee that this is an order to produce documents that Sammy did produce during its trial with Mosaid.

Re: What a nice present for Samsung as they dropped off all their documents

jjr,

I recently read a ruling (or a brief) on Pacer. It appears that Samsung now has until Nov. 29th to turn over the documents. If you recall, they settled with Mosaid before they had to turn over the documents (at least that is my recollection). I think it is very possible we could see a repeat scenario here.

Re: What a nice present for Samsung as they dropped off all their documents

Hey NJ,

Looks like they have until 3 Dec 2007. Here is the stipulation:

Plaintiff Rambus Inc. (“Rambus”) and Defendants Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., and Samsung Austin Semiconductor, L.P. (collectively “Samsung”) (“Parties”) hereby stipulate that Samsung is granted an extension to produce or log documents, if any, contained on one identified hard drive that Samsung’s counsel received from Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. that Samsung’s counsel is currently processing and reviewing for production, that are responsive to Judge Read Ambler’s November 7, 2007 Order Granting Rambus Inc.’s Motion to Compel Samsung’s Production of Documents, Interrogatory Responses, and Supplemental Written Responses to Requests for Production (“Order”). Samsung’s production of relevant, non-privileged documents from the hard drive, if any, will be delivered to Rambus by December 3, 2007. This supplemental production, if any, from the identified hard drive is deemed to be in compliance with the Order. Similarly, Samsung will be granted an extension, until December 3, 2007, to serve supplemental written responses, pursuant to the Order, to Rambus’s Requests for Production.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:Samsung is granted an extension to December 3, 2007 to produce or log documents responsive to the Order, if any, that are contained on the identified hard drive that Samsung’s counsel is currently processing and reviewing for production and to serve its supplemental written responses to Rambus’s Requests for Production, pursuant to the Order.IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:

Re: What a nice present for Samsung as they dropped off all their documents

Hey NJ,

Looks like they have until 3 Dec 2007. Here is the stipulation:

Sounds to me like Samsung showed up with a lot of documents and "Oh, and we just discovered this one additional hard drive we need to go through - we don't yet know if it contains anything relevant and non-duplicative. Can we have some extra time for it?"

Sounds to me like Samsung showed up with a lot of documents and "Oh, and we just discovered this one additional hard drive we need to go through - we don't yet know if it contains anything relevant and non-duplicative. Can we have some extra time for it?"

I don't think the extra days are significant. I just wanted to nail down the date with that post.